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Report : William Shakespeare And The Second Lost Period

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William Shakespeare lived a fairly ordinary life, considering what historians know about him. Born April 23, 1564, he died on the exact same date 42 years later, both events occurring in England. He was born to Mary Arden and John Shakespeare. While in his childhood, William lived amongst his five younger siblings: Gilbert, Richard, Edmund, Joan, and Anne. Starting at age seven, William attended a Stratford grammar school until age fifteen. By eighteen years old, he had already married. He and his wife had a daughter named Susanna in 1583, and a pair of twins named Judith and Hamnet two years later. Unfortunately, what William Shakespeare did in the next few years of his life-- 1583 through 1592-- remains unknown. For this reason, those years became dubbed as “the Second Lost Period.” And though it is unsure, several theories exist. One of the more prominent ones include the deduction that William had participated in illegal hunting on some land in Charlecote, and as a result, had to leave town.
Throughout his life, Shakespeare wrote thirty-eight plays, two narrative poems, and several short poems and sonnets. At the age of twenty-eight years old, in 1592, he started working in the theatre in London. The first and last plays published by him became known as King Henry and King Henry VIII, both collaborations with another playwright named John Fletcher. But the whole of William Shakespeare’s writing career seems to have gone through several

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